Episode 236: Bill Savage (A Repeal Day Special Interview)!

December 5, 2016

Episode 236: Bill Savage (A Repeal Day Special Interview)!

Episode 236 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s show, I talk to the literary historian Bill Savage about the re-release of George Ade’s 1931 classic, breezy history of drinking culture in America.

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Watch and hear Bill’s rant against the term dive bar.

Should Prohibition be repealed? (illustration from The Old Time Saloon)

jetsetter-lounge — My beloved Jetsetter Lounge, in Lake Worth, Florida, circa 2007.

mike-jones — Mike Jones, Mixological Guru.

Teege Braune at work — Teege Braune, The Official Bartender of *The Drunken Odyssey*.

Episode 236 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

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